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The award ceremony was first presented in 1967 and was first nationally televised in 1994 on the Fox Network. There was no awards ceremony in 1973 or 1995. The first live broadcast of the event, also on the Fox Network, occurred in 2007 for its 38th edition (up until 2007, the ceremony had been broadcast with tape delay) and the annual ceremonies usually take place in or around the Los Angeles, United States area, in February or early March. The 44th edition aired on NBC. Sources have had trouble verifying the winners in the top categories from 1983-1995.

The New York firm Society Awards manufactures the trophy since its redesign in 2008.

In 1987, the NAACP came under fire for dropping their Best Actress award for that year. They defended this position, citing a lack of meaningful roles for black women.[5] In 1990, they were criticized once again for not awarding Best Actress.[6] This was the fourth time it could not find enough nominees for Best Actress.[6] Sandra Evers-Manly, president of the organization's Beverly Hills/Hollywood branch, said "The [film] industry has yet to show diversity or present realistic leading roles for African-American women."[6]

The NAACP Image Awards have been the subject of controversy due to prior claims that certain nominees were undeserving of NAACP attention. In response, parties have argued that the quality of an artist's work is the salient issue, with factors such as criminal charges inconsequential in this regard. For example, in 1994, Tupac Shakur was a nominee for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for the film Poetic Justice following sexual assault charges in December 1993.[7] More specifically, Shakur was accused of felony counts of forcible sodomy and unlawful detainment in New York City, when a woman alleged that Shakur and two other men held her down in a hotel room while a fourth man sodomized her.[8] Shakur was also indicted with two counts of aggravated assault in an unrelated incident in which he supposedly shot and wounded two off-duty police officers.[8] In the same year, Martin Lawrence was criticized for winning Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series and Iutstanding Comedy Series and the show was criticized for its sexual controversy.[8] In 2004, R. Kelly's Chocolate Factory was nominated for Outstanding Album[9] while he was under indictment for charges related to child pornography.[10]

Other nominees have faced controversy due to their portrayals of major civil rights figures. In 2003, the movie, Barbershop, received five nominations, including Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Supporting Actor (for Cedric the Entertainer's performance). In the film, Cedric's character makes pejorative remarks about Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Jackson and Jesse Jackson, content that elicited criticism, including a boycott of the awards event by Parks herself.[11] The rap group OutKast received six nominations in 2004 but faced criticism because they had previously recorded a song titled "Rosa Parks" which had resulted in them being sued by Parks over the use of her name.[10]

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Academy Award
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze

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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast

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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf

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Streaming media
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Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. A client end-user can use their player to begin to play the data file before the entire file has been transmitted. For example, in the 1930s, elevator music was among the earliest popularly available streaming media, the term streaming media can apply to media other than video and audio such as live closed captioning, ticker tape, and real-time text, which are all considered streaming text. As of 2017, streaming is generally taken to refer to cases where a user watches digital video content or listens to audio content on a computer screen. With streaming content, the user does not have to download the digital video or digital audio file before they start to watch/listen to it. There are challenges with streaming content on the Internet, as of 2016, two popular streaming services are the video sharing website YouTube, which contains video and audio files on a huge range of topics and Netflix, which streams movies and TV shows. Live streaming refers to Internet content delivered in real-time, as events happen, Live internet streaming requires a form of source media, an encoder to digitize the content, a media publisher, and a content delivery network to distribute and deliver the content. Live streaming does not need to be recorded at the origination point, in the early 1920s, George O. Attempts to display media on computers date back to the earliest days of computing in the mid-20th century, however, little progress was made for several decades, primarily due to the high cost and limited capabilities of computer hardware. From the late 1980s through the 1990s, consumer-grade personal computers became powerful enough to various media. These technological improvement facilitated the streaming of audio and video content to users in their homes and workplaces. The band Severe Tire Damage was the first group to live on the Internet. On June 24,1993, the band was playing a gig at Xerox PARC while elsewhere in the building, as proof of PARCs technology, the bands performance was broadcast and could be seen live in Australia and elsewhere. Microsoft Research developed a Microsoft TV application which was compiled under MS Windows Studio Suite, realNetworks was also a pioneer in the streaming media markets, when it broadcast a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners over the Internet in 1995. The first symphonic concert on the Internet took place at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, the concert was a collaboration between The Seattle Symphony and various guest musicians such as Slash, Matt Cameron, and Barrett Martin. When Word Magazine launched in 1995, they featured the first-ever streaming soundtracks on the Internet.4 in 1999, in June 1999 Apple also introduced a streaming media format in its QuickTime 4 application. It was later widely adopted on websites along with RealPlayer. In 2000 Industryview. com launched its worlds largest streaming video archive website to help promote themselves

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Broadcast delay
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In radio and television, broadcast delay refers to the practice of intentionally delaying broadcast of live material. A short delay is used to prevent profanity, bloopers, violence, or other undesirable material from making it to air. In this instance, it is referred to as a seven-second delay or profanity delay. Longer delays can also be introduced, often to allow a show to air at the time for the local market as is sometimes done with nationally broadcast programs in countries with multiple time zones. That can sometimes be achieved with a video tape recorder or similar technology. In the context of digital video recorders, this can now be considered a class of time shifting. This includes Southern California, despite the fact that Southern California is where many live televised events take place, nationally telecast morning news shows in the US typically are aired live only in the Eastern time zone, while on tape delay in the remaining time zones. This allows post-production staff to edit out any glitches that occurred during the live broadcast, tape delay also refers to the process of broadcasting an event at a later scheduled time. This is because either a scheduling conflict prevents a live telecast and this can also be done due to time constraints where certain portions are edited out, or availability of hosts or other key production staff only at certain times of the day. Sporting events aired on tape delay are often edited down for time considerations, highlighting what the broadcaster feels are the most interesting portions of the event, a system of rollers guided the tape over the playback head before it wound up on the take up reel. This system was introduced in 1952 when WKAP started a show called Open Mic. It is believed that this was the first time a telephone call-in show was broadcast with the telephone conversation live on the air, the FCC rules at the time prohibited the broadcasting of a live phone conversation. However, there was no rule prohibiting a taped playback of a phone call, the six-second delay constituted a taped phone conversation, thus complying with FCC regulations, that being a legal fiction. The broadcast profanity delay was invented by C, frank Cordaro who was Chief Engineer of WKAP, originally on AM1320, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s and early 1960s. This new device was to be used on the Open Mic radio talk show, the device Cordaro developed was the first tape delay system. WKAP was one of stations owned by the Rahal brothers of West Virginia. First tested and used at WKAP, this system for broadcast profanity delay was then installed at the other Rahal-owned radio stations. From the Rahal brothers stations, the broadcast profanity delay went into common usage throughout the US, john Nebel, who began a pioneering radio talk show in New York City in 1954, was one of the early users of a tape delay system

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Society Awards
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Society Awards was founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David Moritz, and is headquartered in New York City. Moritz is an attorney by training, and has founded two companies which include Viceroy Creative and Ambition Beverages. Society Award’s clients include televised entertainment programs, charitable organizations, Fortune 500 corporations, film festivals, the company has done projects for companies and brands ranging from MTV to YouTube, John Varvatos and Jeff Koons. In 2013, Society Awards designed the first ever trophy for The Voice and that same year, the company also manufactured a bottle stopper as part of limited edition packaging for Patrón in its collaboration with David Yurman. The Society Awards offices are located in Long Island City in the old Standard Motor Products building, the company occupies an 8,000 sq. ft. space, and does much of the trophy and award customizing on-site with specialized machinery. The company also has a 12,000 sq. ft. facility in the U. S. Midwest

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Beverly Hilton Hotel
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The Beverly Hilton is a hotel located on an 8. 9-acre property at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills, California. Conrad Hilton opened the Beverly Hilton in 1955, architect Welton Becket designed the hotel as a showpiece with 582 rooms. Since 1961, the hotels International Ballroom has hosted the Golden Globe Award ceremony, in 1975, 50% of the property was sold to Prudential Insurance Company forming a partnership with the Hilton Hotels Corporation. The partnership sold the hotel to entertainer and businessman Merv Griffin for $100.2 million in December 1987, the Beverly Hilton had completed a $35 million renovation prior to Griffins purchase. Griffin owned the hotel from 1987 to 2003, during which time its reputation faded as maintenance was deferred, in 2003, Griffin sold the Beverly Hilton for $130 million to Beny Alagem, co-founder of Packard Bell Electronics, through his company Oasis West Realty. Commemorating its 50th anniversary, an ambitious $80 million renovation by architecture firm Gensler began in conjunction with Hilton Hotels, the renovation reduced the number of rooms to 570, which feature 42-inch plasma high-definition televisions and Bose Wave radios. The meeting spaces and the International Ballroom—where the Golden Globes ceremony is also renovated. On February 11,2012, singer Whitney Houston died in her bathtub in Suite 434, Hotel management has since renovated the room. In April 2006, owners unveiled plans for an expansion to the Beverly Hilton property. One intent of the plan was to position the upgraded hotel as a less-expensive 4½-star alternative to nearby five-star rivals such as the Peninsula. Two new three-story buildings on Wilshire Boulevard would house 96 guest rooms, the Beverly Hilton will be renovated into a smaller, 402-room hotel, renamed the Beverly Hilton Oasis. A 120-room Waldorf-Astoria Beverly Hills hotel, designed by Gensler with interiors by Pierre-Yves Rochon, the Waldorf-Astoria Beverly Hills will be the first new hotel for the brand on the West Coast. The Beverly Hilton and the Waldorf-Astoria would be separate premises, with both operated and managed by Hilton Hotels Corporation, the Beverly Hills City Council approved the $500 million project by a 3-2 vote. Measure H authorized the Beverly Hills City Council to amend the citys plan to allow a luxury hotel, condominiums. On December 2,2008, Proposal H passed by 129 votes with over 15,000 cast, the 12-story, 170-room Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills was designed by architecture firm Gensler with interior designer by Pierre-Yves Rochon. Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills is slated to open in 2017, measure HH was a November 2016 ballot initiative to allow Oasis West Realty to build a 37-story condominium tower on the Beverly Hilton site. The initiative was rejected by Beverly Hills voters, with nearly 56% voting no, presidential candidate and Senator John Edwards was videotaped visiting Rielle Hunter, during his extramarital affair scandal. American singer and actress Whitney Houston died at the hotel on February 11,2012 after accidentally drowning while in the bathtub of her room, Hilton Worldwide The Beverly Hilton website

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Hollywood Palladium
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Hollywood Palladium is a theater located at 6215 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. It was built in a Streamline Moderne, Art Deco style and includes an 11,200 square foot dance floor including a mezzanine, the theater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Los Angeles Times publisher Norman Chandler funded the construction of the art deco Hollywood Palladium at a cost of $1.6 million in 1940 and it was built where the original Paramount lot once stood by film producer Maurice Cohen and is located between Argyle and El Centro avenues. The style dance hall was designed by Gordon Kaufmann, architect of the Greystone Mansion, the Los Angeles Times building and he was also the architect for the Hoover Dam and early Caltech dorms. The ballroom opened on October 31,1940 with a dance featuring Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra and it had six bars serving liquor and two more serving soft drinks and a $1 cover charge and a $3 charge for dinner. From 1955-1976, the scene of Latin Music Orchestras for ragers sponsored by radio personality Chico Sesma titled Latin Holidays, the Tito Puente Orchestra performed regularly between 1957-1977 to sold out houses of 5000. The Joe Loco Orchestra and show performed on the March 1965 Latin Holiday with singer/dancer Josephine Josie Powell, during World War II, the Palladium hosted radio broadcasts featuring Betty Grable greeting servicemens song requests. Big Band acts began losing popularity in the 1950s, causing the Palladium to hold charity balls, political events, auto shows, in 1961, it became the home of the long-running Lawrence Welk Show. Pop Expo 69, referred to as a fair, was a youth-oriented event held from 3/28/69 to 4/6/69 at the Palladium, and included performances by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Beginning in the 1980s and 90s, punk rock, rap, several white power disturbances resulted, eventually leading to the Palladium closing for eight weeks, starting in February 1993. In 1964, it was announced that none of the bands scheduled were to be paid. In 1973 Stevie Wonder performed with Taj Mahal in what was advertised as an Afrocentric concert to benefit African refugees, since 1985, the theater has been owned by Palladium Investors Ltd. a privately held group. Curfews were implemented in 1993 and a show by Marky Mark and it was also used for Hollywood celebrity parties. In 2007, the agreed to a long-term lease to operate, manage and exclusively book the Hollywood Palladium with Live Nation. The Palladium reopened with a Jay-Z concert on October 15,2008 after a year-long, the renovation included an overhaul of the venues interior and exterior, a new dance floor, expanded concessions, upgraded restrooms and improvements to the stage infrastructure. Jay-Z performed for nearly an hour-and-half, backed by a band and DJ AM. The Hollywood Palladium was also used as the memorial site for DJ AM on September 3,2009. For the 2008-2009 season, a table for four cost $30,000

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Louis Gossett, Jr.
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Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. is an American actor. Gossett has also starred in film productions including A Raisin In The Sun. Gossett was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, on May 27,1936, to Hellen Rebecca, a nurse and he is an alumnus of Mark Twain Intermediate School 239 and Abraham Lincoln High School. His stage debut came at the age of 17, in a production of You Cant Take It with You when a sports injury resulted in the decision to take an acting class. Polio had already delayed his graduation, after graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1954, he attended New York University, declining an athletic scholarship. Standing 64, he was offered the opportunity to play varsity basketball during his years at NYU. Gossett replaced Bill Gunn as Spencer Scott in Broadways Take a Giant Step and he was 17, and still a student at Abraham Lincoln High School, with no formal drama training. Gossetts Broadway theatre credits include A Raisin in the Sun, Gossett stepped into the world of cinema in the Sidney Poitier vehicle A Raisin in the Sun in 1961. Also in 1961, Gossett appeared in the original cast of Jean Genets The Blacks, the original cast also featured James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Cicely Tyson, Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou and Charles Gordone. In 1965, Gossett appeared in the play, Zulu. Gossett wrote the antiwar folk song Handsome Johnny with Richie Havens which Havens recorded in 1966 and his Emmy Award-winning role of Fiddler in the 1977 television miniseries Roots first brought Gossett to the audiences attention. In 1983, he was cast in the role in Sadat. While filming An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett was also starring in the 1982–1983 science fiction series and his role as drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was the first African-American male to win an Oscar in a role, the second black male to win for acting. In 1986, Gossett starred in another role as a man in the film Iron Eagle. It was followed by three sequels, Gossett is the voice of the Vortigaunts in the video game Half-Life 2 and is the Free Jaffa Leader Gerak in Season 9 of the sci-fi television series Stargate SG-1. He provides the voice of Lucius Fox in The Batman animated series and he recorded several commercials for a Nashville-based diabetic company, AmMed Direct, LLC. In 1997, Gossett presented When Animals Attack,4, a one-hour special on Fox

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Rita Moreno
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Rita Dolores Moreno is a Puerto Rican-American actress, dancer and singer. Moreno is one of twelve performers to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards, an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and she has also won numerous other awards, including various lifetime achievement awards. Moreno also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Americas highest civilian honor, Moreno, was born Rosa Dolores Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico, to Rosa María, a seamstress, and Francisco José Paco Alverío, a farmer. Moreno, whose mother was 17 at the time of her birth, was raised in nearby Juncos, Ritas mother moved to New York City in 1936, taking her daughter, but not her son, Ritas younger brother, Francisco. Rita later adopted the surname of her first stepfather, Edward Moreno, Rita began her first dancing lessons soon after arriving in New York with a Spanish dancer known as Paco Cansino, who was a paternal uncle of film star Rita Hayworth. When she was 11 years old, she lent her voice to Spanish language versions of American films and she had her first Broadway role—as Angelina in Skydrift—by the time she was 13, which caught the attention of Hollywood talent scouts. Moreno acted steadily in films throughout the 1950s, usually in roles, including in The Toast of New Orleans. In March 1954, Moreno was featured on the cover of Life Magazine with the caption Rita Moreno, An Actresss Catalog of Sex, Moreno disliked most of her film work during this period, as she felt the roles she was given were very stereotypical. One exception was her role in the film version of The King. Moreno won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for that role and she did appear in one film during her self-imposed exile from Hollywood – Cry of Battle – although it had been filmed directly before and after she won the Academy Award. She made her return to film in The Night of the Following Day, another notable role was in the hit film The Four Seasons. She has continued to work in film since then, including a voice role in the 2014 film Rio 2. From 1971 to 1977, Moreno was a main cast member on the PBS childrens series The Electric Company and she screamed the shows opening line, HEY, YOU GUYS. Her roles on the show included Millie the Helper, the naughty little girl Pandora, and Otto, One notable guest appearance was a three-episode arc on The Rockford Files in 1977 as former call girl Rita Kapcovic. For her portrayal, Moreno won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series, as a result, she became the third person to have won an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy. She was a regular on the first three seasons of the version of Nine to Five during the early 1980s. During the mid-1990s, Moreno provided the voice of Carmen Sandiego on Foxs animated series Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego. In the late 1990s, she gained exposure to a new generation of viewers when she played Sister Pete and she made a guest appearance on The Nanny as Coach Stone, Maggies tyrannical gym teacher, whom Fran Fine also remembered from her school as Ms. Wickavich

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Ted Lange
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Theodore William Ted Lange is an American actor, director, and screenwriter best known for his role as the bartender, Isaac Washington, in the TV series The Love Boat. Lange and Gavin MacLeod, who played his captain in the series, have remained close friends, Lange was born in Oakland, California, in 1948, the son of Geraldine L. a television show host, and Ted Lange. Lange attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Lange was a cast member of the musical Hair. His first screen appearance was in the documentary film Wattstax in 1973, after he left the show in 1987, Lange appeared in various films and guest roles on 227, The Cleveland Show, Glitch. Evening Shade, Scrubs, Drake & Josh, The King of Queens, Boy Meets World, Psych, in addition to his film and television work, Lange has also done extensive theater work. He made his Broadway debut in 1968 in the musical Hair and he also performed in a one-man show, Behind the Mask, An Evening with Paul Laurence Dunbar. During the run of The Love Boat, Lange also served as director, in 1977, he wrote the screenplay for the 1977 drama Passing Through, starring Cora Lee Day and Marla Gibbs. In 1999, Lange directed two episodes of Love Boat, The Next Wave, the UPN series based on The Love Boat and he also directed episodes of Moesha, Dharma & Greg, and Eve. In 2008, he directed the drama For Love of Amy, Lange has also done extensive theater work as playwright and stage director. He has penned 17 plays, including George Washingtons Boy, a drama about the relationship between the first president and his favorite slave, along with the comedy Lemon Meringue Facade. Lange remains close to Gavin MacLeod, his mentor, who is a Palm Springs resident. He said in a 2014 interview with CBS New York. com of his friendship with him, Gavin lives in Palm Springs. So, when I do my plays, he comes down and he also said in a 2017 interview with The Wiseguyz Show, if his mentor enjoyed all the acting/dancing on The Love Boat series was, Oh yeah, sure, Gavin was wonderful. Gavin lives down here in Palm Springs and were tight, all of us, Gavin and Bernie and Jill. Fred lives in a different state, were close, were still good friends. Before the American edition of FHM folded in 2006, Lange wrote a sex and advice column, titled Ask Isaac, in 2006, Lange appeared in the fourth season of the VH1 reality show Celebrity Fit Club. He lost 28 pounds during the shows run, Lange married Sheryl Thompson in 1978, and they divorced in 1989. The couple has two children, Ted IV and Turner Wallace Lange, Lange remarried in 2001 to Mary Ley

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Robert Guillaume
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In a career that has spanned more than 50 years he has worked extensively on stage, television, and film. Guillaume was born in St. Louis, Missouri and he studied at St. Louis University and Washington University and served in the United States Army before pursuing an acting career. After leaving the university, Guillaume joined the Karamu Players in Cleveland and performed in musical comedies and he toured the world in 1959 as a cast member of the Broadway musical Free and Easy. He made his Broadway debut in Kwamina in 1961, added roles were in Katherine Dunhams Bambouche and in Fly The Blackbird. In 1964 he portrayed Sportin Life in a revival of Porgy, Guillaume has been a member of the Robert de Cormier Singers, performing in concerts and on television. He has soloed on The Tonight Show and he recorded a LP record, Columbia CS9033, titled Just Arrived as a member of The Pilgrims, a folk trio, with Angeline Butler and Millard Williams. In the sixties he was in Vienna, Austria, Europe at the Vienna Volksoper, marcel Prawy engaged Robert Guillaume for the role of Sporting Life in Porgy and Bess. His series-regular debut began on the ABC series Soap, playing Benson, Guillaume continued the role in a spin-off series, Benson, from 1979 until 1986. Guillaume also played Dr. Franklin in Season 6 episode #8 titled Chain Letter in the series All in the Family, Guillaume suffered a mild stroke on January 14,1999, while filming an episode of the latter series. He recovered and his character was also depicted as having had a stroke. He also made a guest appearance on 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, the Kid from Left Field Seems Like Old Times The Kid with the Broken Halo The Kid with the 200 I. Q. He also voiced Amedee Carillon in The Real Story of Sur Le Pont DAvignon and he voiced Mr. Thicknose in The Land Before Time VIII, The Big Freeze. He also supplied the voice for Eli Vance in the 2004 video game Half-Life 2, in 1995, Guillaume received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for The Lion King read-along book, which he narrates in the voice of Rafiki. Guillaume has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame, on November 28,1984, Guillaume received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in the television industry

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Jayne Kennedy
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Jayne Kennedy Overton is an American television personality, actress, model, corporate spokeswoman, producer, writer, public speaker, philanthropist, beauty pageant titleholder and sports broadcaster. Kennedy won the NAACP Theater Award for Best Producer along with her current husband Bill Overton for their production of the highly acclaimed staged musical, The Journey of the African American. Ebony Magazine announced as “One of the 20 Greatest Sex Symbols of the 20th Century, ” and in the 1980s, born Jayne Harrison in Washington, D. C. to machinist Herbert Harrison and his wife, Virginia. Kennedy attended Wickliffe High School in Wickliffe, Ohio, while still in high school, Kennedy was crowned Miss Ohio USA in 1970, and was one of the 12 semi–finalists in the 1970 Miss Universe pageant. It was rare for an African American woman at that time to be in the contest, in 1971, Jayne and her then-husband Leon Isaac Kennedy moved to California to pursue careers in acting. She began with a stint on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In as a dancer, traveled as one of the Hollywood Deb Stars on Bob Hope’s Bases Around The World Christmas Tour in Vietnam, Thailand, Cuba, etc. She then won a spot of one of The Dean Martin Show’s Ding-A-Ling Sisters for three years, performing in clubs all over the USA as a singer/dancer. In 1978, she won acclaim as one of the first women to infiltrate the male-dominated world of sports announcing with a place on The NFL Today. She went on to be the female to ever host the syndicated TV series Greatest Sports Legends. She has been on the covers of Ebony, Jet, since the 1990s, Kennedy has remained busy away from the limelight, spending more time with her family. With four daughters, she has been an advocate for equality in sports for women. A year after school, she met Leon Isaac Kennedy, who was a DJ. Motown singer/songwriter Smokey Robinson served as best man at their wedding, in 1985, Kennedy married actor Bill Overton. They have four children, his daughter Cheyenne and their three daughters Savannah Re, Kopper Joi and Zaire Ollyea, Jayne Kennedy at AllMovie Jayne Kennedy at the Internet Movie Database The Legend of Jayne Kennedy

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George Peppard
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George Peppard Jr. was an American film and television actor. Peppard secured a role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffanys. On television, he played the role of millionaire insurance investigator. He played Col. John Hannibal Smith, the leader of a renegade commando squad. George Peppard, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan and he graduated from Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan. Peppard enlisted in the United States Marine Corps July 8,1946, during 1948 and 1949, he studied Civil Engineering at Purdue University where he was a member of the Purdue Playmakers theatre troupe and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He then transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and he also trained at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. In addition to acting, Peppard was a pilot and he spent a portion of his 1966 honeymoon training to fly his Learjet in Wichita, Kansas. Peppard made his debut in 1949 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. After moving to New York City, Peppard enrolled in the Actors Studio and he worked in summer stock in New England and appeared at the open air Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. He made his debut in The Strange One. Peppard had signed to play a role on Broadway in The Pleasure of His Company when he auditioned successfully for MGMs Home from the Hill and he ended up appearing in Pleasure of His Company for six months before making Home from the Hill. Part of the arrangement of the latter involved signing with MGM for a term contract. Home from the Hill was a film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Robert Mitchum. It was a success at the box office, although the high cost meant that it was not profitable. Peppards next film for MGM was The Subterraneans, an adaptation of the novel by Jack Keruoac and it flopped and Peppard said I couldnt get arrested afterwards. His good looks, elegant manner and superior acting skills landed Peppard his most famous role as Paul Varjak in Breakfast at Tiffanys with Audrey Hepburn. This 1961 role boosted him briefly to a film star

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Michael Warren (actor)
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Michael Warren is an American TV actor and former college basketball player, best known for playing Officer Bobby Hill on the NBC television series Hill Street Blues. Mike Warren grew up in South Bend, Indiana and attended Central High School and he was twice named to the Indiana all-state team. He graduated in 1964 as Bears career, season, and single-game scoring leader, in 1992, he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Warren played college basketball at UCLA, where he was a varsity letterman. Led by Lew Alcindor, the Bruins posted records of 30–0 in 1967, both teams, coached by legendary coach John Wooden, captured the NCAA national championship. Warren, the smallest Bruins starter at 511, averaged 12.4 points as a junior in 1967 and he was named to the NCAA All-Tournament team and was a consensus All-American in 1968, one of three on that UCLA team along with Alcindor and guard Lucius Allen. The team is considered one of the best in basketball history. Warren also earned the award as the Bruins best defender in 1966, Alcindor and Warren later crossed paths when Warren was an extra in the hospital flashback scene in the 1980 feature film Airplane. Warren was inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame, Warren would go on to work as an actor in television. D. He guest starred in In the House opposite LL Cool J as Debbie Allens ex-husband and he also guest starred on the Fox sitcom Living Single as Khadijahs father, and later portrayed Joans father on the UPN/CW sitcom Girlfriends. Warren played Darrin Dewitt Hensons boss on the Showtime show, Soul Food, in which he played hustler-turned-entrepreneur and he had a recurring role on the ABC Family series, Lincoln Heights, as Spencer Sutton, Eddies father. Warren appeared as Virgil Tibbs former longtime police partner, Matthew Pogue on the episode of In the Heat of the Night The Hammer, in 1996, he was on the Early Edition episode Hoops. In 2002 he appeared in Normal Again, an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and his film work includes 1976s Norman. Is That You. with Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey and as basketball player Easley in the 1971 film Drive, in 2010, Warren appeared in the independent film Andersons Cross playing the father of the lead character Nick Anderson. Warren has two daughters named Koa and Makayla, and two sons, Grayson Warren and Cash Warren and his son Cash Warren is married to actress Jessica Alba. First-team All-AAWU2009 Pac-10 Hall of Honor inductee UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame,1990 14th round pick in the 1968 NBA Draft, sources NCAA, NCAA March Madness, Cinderellas, Superstars, and Champions from the NCAA Mens Final Four. ISBN 1-57243-665-4 Michael Warren at the Internet Movie Database

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Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center. The Music Centers other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, the Pavilion has 3,156 seats spread over four tiers, with chandeliers, wide curving stairways and rich décor. The auditoriums sections are the Orchestra, Circle, Loge, as well as Balcony, construction started on March 9,1962, and it was dedicated September 27,1964. The Pavilion was named for Dorothy Buffum Chandler who “led effort to build a home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The result was Mrs. Chandler’s crowning achievement, the Music Center of Los Angeles County and her tenacious nine-year campaign on behalf of the Music Center produced more than $19 million in private donations” noted Albert Greenstein in 1999. The building was designed by architect Welton Becket, the project was an example of his firms approach of total design, in which he managed all aspects including design, construction, fixtures, and interior finishes to achieve a coherent whole. The result was the Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration, a Christmas Eve tradition sponsored by the Board of Supervisors, the program is broadcast on KCET-TV and an edited version of the prior years show is syndicated to public television stations via PBS. The opening concert was held on December 6,1964 with Zubin Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic with soloist Jascha Heifetz, the program included Fanfare by Richard Strauss, American Festival Overture by William Schuman, Roman Festivals by Ottorino Respighi, Beethovens Violin Concerto. The Los Angeles Master Chorale, under Music Director Roger Wagner, was the other founding resident company at the Pavilion, before creation of the Los Angeles Opera company, the New York City Opera came regularly on tour and performed in the Pavilion. One such tour, in 1967, consisted of two performances of Madama Butterfly, one of La Traviata, and two of Ginasteras Don Rodrigo, each with Plácido Domingo singing the tenor role. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held its annual Academy Awards in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion from 1969 to 1987,1990,1992 to 1994,1996, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is featured in the 2008 video game Midnight Club, Los Angeles. The site was used as the location for a perfume ad directed by Spike Jonze. Since 1964, a Christmas Eve tradition for the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is the annual free Holiday Celebration funded by Los Angeles County and it is six hours of music and dance by groups from all around Los Angeles county. The performances are also broadcast on the KCET public television station with a version broadcast on PBS since 2002. Los Angeles Opera List of opera houses Toland, James W, the Music Center Story, a Decade of Achievement 1964–1974, The Music Center Foundation, Los Angeles,1974. Los Angeles Music Centers page on the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Homepage of the Los Angeles Opera company

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Debbie Allen
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Deborrah Kaye Debbie Allen is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She is perhaps best known for her work on the 1982 musical-drama television series Fame, where she portrayed dance teacher Lydia Grant and she currently portrays Catherine Avery on Greys Anatomy. She is the sister of actress/director/singer Phylicia Rashad. She holds honoris causa Doctorates from Howard University and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and she also taught choreography to former Los Angeles Lakers dancer-turned-singer, Paula Abdul. Her daughter, Vivian Nixon, played Kalimba in the Broadway production of Hot Feet, Debbie Allen was a great actor and dancer in her early life. After her trip with her family from Mexico, both Debbie Allen and her decided to return to their permanent home in Texas. When she returned to her home in Texas, Debbie Allen auditioned at the Houston Ballet School at the age of twelve, even though her audition performance exceeded beyond the qualifications of admission, Debbie Allen was denied admission to the school due to the color of her skin. After a year of hearing this news, Allen was given another chance and was admitted by a Russian instructor who accidentally saw Debbie Allen perform in a show. Once admission recruiters from the Houston Ballet School became aware of the situation and this is not the only incident Allen had experienced racism. Unfortunately, Allen was rejected due to her body not suited for ballet. In many cases, African American dancers were often discouraged to dance because they were told the structure of their body did not suit the body of a ballet dancer. After receiving numerous rejections, Allen decided to focus on her academics and. Debbie Allen had her Broadway debut in the chorus of Purlie, Allen also created the role of Beneatha in the Tony Award-winning musical Raisin. One of her television appearances was in the TV sitcom Good Times in a memorable 2-part episode titled J. J. s Fiancee as J. J. s drug-addicted fiancee. Allen was first introduced as Lydia Grant in the 1980 film Fame, although her role in the film was relatively small, Lydia would become a central figure in the television adaptation, which ran from 1982 to 1987. During the opening montage of each episode, Grant told her students, and right here is where you start paying. Allen was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Actress four times during the shows run, in 1981, she had the important role of Sarah, the lover of Coalhouse Walker who is killed while trying to defend him in the movie version of the best-selling novel Ragtime. When the book was made into a Broadway musical, her role was played by Audra McDonald who won a Tony Award for the part, Allen was also lead choreographer for the film and television series, winning two Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award

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Denzel Washington
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Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, director, and producer. Tolson in The Great Debaters, and drug kingpin Frank Lucas in American Gangster and he has been a featured actor in the films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and has been a frequent collaborator of directors Spike Lee, Antoine Fuqua and Tony Scott. In 2016, Washington was selected as the recipient for the Cecil B, deMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, Washington made his debut with biographical film Antwone Fisher. His second directorial effort was The Great Debaters, released in 2007, Washingtons third directorial effort, Fences, starring himself and Viola Davis, was released on December 16,2016. Washington was born in Mount Vernon, New York and his mother, Lennis Lynne, was a beauty parlor owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem. Washington attended Pennington-Grimes Elementary School in Mount Vernon until 1968, when he was 14, his parents divorced, and his mother sent him to a private preparatory school, Oakland Military Academy in New Windsor, New York. That decision changed my life, Washington later said, because I wouldnt have survived in the direction I was going, the guys I was hanging out with at the time, my running buddies, have now done maybe 40 years combined in the penitentiary. They were nice guys, but the streets got them, after Oakland, Washington next attended Mainland High School, a public high school in Daytona Beach, Florida, from 1970 to 1971. He was interested in attending Texas Tech University, I grew up in the Boys Club in Mount Vernon, so when I was in high school, I wanted to go to Texas Tech in Lubbock just because they were called the Red Raiders and their uniforms looked like ours. Washington earned a B. A. in Drama and Journalism from Fordham University in 1977, at Fordham, he played collegiate basketball as a guard under coach P. J. Carlesimo. After a period of indecision on which major to study and taking a semester off, Washington worked as creative director at an overnight summer camp, Camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville. He participated in a talent show for the campers and a colleague suggested he try acting. He then attended school at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Washington spent the summer of 1976 in St, shortly after graduating from Fordham, Washington made his screen acting debut in the 1977 made-for-television film Wilma, and his first Hollywood appearance in the 1981 film Carbon Copy. A major career break came when Washington starred as Dr. Phillip Chandler in NBCs television hospital drama St. Elsewhere and he was one of only a few African-American actors to appear on the series for its entire six-year run. He also appeared in television, motion picture and stage roles, such as the films A Soldiers Story, Hard Lessons. In 1989, Washington won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a defiant, in 1990, Washington starred as Bleek Gilliam in the Spike Lee film Mo Better Blues

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Whitney Houston
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time, Houston is one of pop musics best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide. She released seven albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No.1 Billboard Hot 100 hits and she is the second artist behind Elton John and the only woman to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houstons debut album, Whitney Houston, became the debut album by a woman in history. Rolling Stone named it the best album of 1986, and ranked it at number 254 on the magazines list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album, Whitney, became the first album by a woman to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Houstons first acting role was as the star of the feature film The Bodyguard. The films original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and its lead single, I Will Always Love You, won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became the best-selling single by a woman in music history. With the album, Houston became the first act to sell more than a million copies of an album within a week period under Nielsen SoundScan system. The album makes her the top female act in the top 10 list of the albums of all time. Houston continued to star in movies and contribute to their soundtracks, including the films Waiting to Exhale, the Preachers Wife soundtrack became the best-selling gospel album in history. On February 11,2012, Houston was found dead in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, the official coroners report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors. News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards and featured prominently in American, Whitney Houston was born on August 9,1963 in what was then a middle-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Army serviceman and entertainment executive John Russell Houston, Jr. and her elder brother Michael is a singer, and her elder half-brother is former basketball player Gary Garland. Her parents were both African American, through her mother, Houston was a first cousin of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick. Her godmother was Darlene Love and her aunt was Aretha Franklin. Houston was raised a Baptist, but was exposed to the Pentecostal church. After the 1967 Newark riots, the moved to a middle-class area in East Orange, New Jersey

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Pasadena Conference Center
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The Pasadena Convention Center is a convention center in Pasadena, California, near Los Angeles, owned by the City of Pasadena. The Civic Auditorium, one of the structures in the Pasadena Civic Center District, was built in 1931 and is best known for being the home for the Emmy Awards from 1977 until 1997. It was designed by architects George Edwin Bergstrom, Cyril Bennett, Today, the Auditorium is home to the Peoples Choice Awards and the former home of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra. It has also used for some episodes of American Idol. It was used as the venue for Hollywood Week in season 10. The 3, 029-seat theater hosts musicals, operas and concerts, among other events, the venues theatre organ was acquired in 1979, having been commissioned in 1938 as a touring organ by Reginald Foort, who attended its inauguration on 23 April 1980. It was used by the BBC during and after World War II, in addition to the main auditorium, the Civic Auditorium building originally contained two lecture rooms and an exhibition hall of 100 by 200 ft. The Motown 25, Yesterday, Today, Forever special was taped here on March 25,1983, the show is best remembered for Michael Jacksons performance of Billie Jean in which he debuted his signature dance move the Moonwalk. Louis Armstrongs 1951 album Satchmo at Pasadena was also recorded here, the auditorium has also been used for the Miss Teen USA2007 pageant. The preliminary and final competitions were broadcast live on NBC and it also brought in for auditions of the 11th and 12th season of Americas Got Talent. The Pasadena Civic Auditorium will host the upcoming 44th Daytime Emmy Awards, the Exhibition Building features 31,200 sq ft of exhibit space and can seat up to 4,400 for various events. Adjacent to the Exhibition Building is a 15,000 sq ft annex seating up to 600 patrons, the Conference Building has 20 meeting rooms totaling 28,000 sq ft. List of convention centers in the United States Pasadena Convention Center The Pasadena Civic Auditorium

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Arsenio Hall
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Arsenio Hall is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host. He is best known for hosting The Arsenio Hall Show, a talk show that ran from 1989 until 1994. Other television shows and films Hall has appeared in are Martial Law, Star Search, Coming to America, Hall is also known for his appearance as Alan Thickes sidekick on the talk show Thicke of the Night. In 2012, Hall won NBCs reality-competition game show Celebrity Apprentice 5, Arsenio was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Fred and Anne Hall. His father is a Baptist minister, Hall performed as a magician when he was a child. He graduated from Warrensville Heights High School in Warrensville Heights, Ohio in 1973, after he graduated, he attended Ohio University, where he was on the speech team with Nancy Cartwright. He then transferred to and graduated from Kent State University in 1977, Hall later moved to Chicago, and then Los Angeles, to pursue a career in comedy, making a couple of appearances on Soul Train. In 1984, he was the announcer/sidekick for Alan Thicke during the talk show Thicke of the Night. Arsenio was the voice of Winston Zeddemore in the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters from 1986 to 1987. In 1988, he co-starred in the comedy film Coming to America with Eddie Murphy, in 1986, the Fox network introduced The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, created to directly challenge The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. After a moderate start, ratings for the show sagged, behind-the-scenes relations between Rivers and network executives at Fox quickly eroded, and Rivers left in 1987. The series was subsequently renamed The Late Show, and featured several hosts, including Ross Shafer, Suzanne Somers, Richard Belzer and Robert Townsend before it was cancelled in 1988. Hall was also chosen to host the show in the fall of 1987, from January 2,1989 until May 27,1994, he had a Paramount contract to host a nationwide syndicated late night talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show. The practice soon became such a ritual that by 1991 had become a pop culture stamp of approval — one that Hall said had become so popular its getting on peoples nerves. In Disneys Aladdin, the Genie character voiced by Robin Williams performs the gesture while mimicking the appearance of Hall. This popular gesture can also be found in the 1993 Mel Brooks comedy, Robin Hood and it was also seen in the movie Passenger 57, in which an old woman confuses the character played by Wesley Snipes with Arsenio Hall. After saving the day, the passengers on the plane do the gesture toward the protagonist. He also had a rivalry with Jay Leno, after the latter was named host of The Tonight Show, Hall used his fame during this period to help fight worldwide prejudice against HIV/AIDS, after Magic Johnson contracted the disease

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Patti LaBelle
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Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards better known under the stage name Patti LaBelle, is an American singer, author, actress, and entrepreneur. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the group, Patti LaBelle. After the group split in 1976, LaBelle began a solo career, starting with her critically acclaimed debut album. Less than two years later, in 1986, LaBelle scored with the album, Winner in You. LaBelle eventually won a 1992 Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for her 1991 album, Burnin, followed by a second Grammy win for the live album and her 1990s albums, Burnin, Gems and Flame, continued her popularity with young R&B audiences throughout the decade. LaBelles success has extended as an actress with a role in the film, A Soldiers Story. In 1992, LaBelle starred in her own TV sitcom, Out All Night, a decade later, LaBelle hosted her own lifestyle TV show, Living It Up with Patti LaBelle on TV One. In 2015, LaBelle took part in the competition, Dancing with the Stars. In a career that has spanned fifty years, she has more than 50 million records worldwide. LaBelle has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Apollo Theater Hall of Fame, in 2005, the World Music Awards recognized her years in the music business by awarding her the Legend Award. Possessing the voice of a soprano, LaBelle was included in Rolling Stone on their list of 100 Greatest Singers, LaBelle is commonly identified as the Godmother of Soul. LaBelle was born Patricia Louise Holte on May 24,1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her father was a railroad worker and her mother was a domestic. Despite enjoying her childhood, LaBelle would later write in her memoirs, Dont Block the Blessings, when Patti was seven, she was sexually molested by a family friend. At twelve, her parents came to an end though Patti remained close to her father. When she was fifteen, she won a talent competition at her high school and this success led to Patti forming her first singing group, the Ordettes, in 1960, with schoolmates Jean Brown, Yvonne Hogen and Johnnie Dawson. The group, with Patti as front woman, became an attraction until two of its members left to marry. In 1962, the Ordettes included three new members, Cindy Birdsong, Sarah Dash and Nona Hendryx, the two girls having sung for another defunct vocal group. That year, they auditioned for record label owner Harold Robinson

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Vanessa L. Williams
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Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American actress, singer, and fashion designer. She initially gained recognition as the first African-American recipient of the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in September 1983. However, a few prior to the end of her reign. Williams thus resigned as Miss America on July 22,1984, a few years later, she rebounded as an entertainer with the song The Right Stuff. She then had a string of albums and singles and also found success as an actress. You have lived life in grace and dignity, and never was it more evident than during the events of 1984. Though none of us currently in the organization were involved then, on behalf of todays organization, I want to apologize to you and to your mother, Miss Helen Williams. I want to apologize for anything that was said or done that made you feel any less the Miss America you are, Vanessa Lynn Williams was born in the The Bronx, New York, with a birth announcement that read, Here she is, Miss America. Her maternal great-great grandfather was William A. Feilds, an African-American legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives and her mother, Helen Tinch, met her father, Milton Augustine Williams Jr. while both were music education students at Fredonia State Teachers College in the late 1950s. They both became elementary school music teachers after marriage, though their positions were in separate districts. Milton also served as the Assistant Principal of his school for a period of time. Williams was raised Roman Catholic, the religion of her father and her mother, who had been raised Baptist, converted to Catholicism when she got married. Williams was baptized at Our Lady of Grace Church in the Bronx, Williams mother played the organ at St. Theresas Church in Briarcliff Manor for weddings and at mass and Williams used to assist her mother by turning the pages of sheet music. Williams and her younger brother Chris grew up in a predominantly white suburb of New York City. Williams believes that she may have been the first African-American student to go from the first grade to the 12th grade in the Chappaqua Central School District. As the child of teachers, Williams grew up in a musical household, studying classical and jazz dance, French horn, piano. Thus, in 1981, Williams joined Syracuses College of Visual and Performing Arts and she stayed at Syracuse through her sophomore year, until she was crowned Miss America 1984 in September 1983. Twenty-five years later in May 2008, Syracuse granted Williams a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, according to Syracuse News, Williams earned the remaining credits for her degree through industry experience and her substantial performances on stage and screen

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Gregory Hines
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Gregory Oliver Hines was an American dancer, actor, singer, and choreographer. Hines was born in New York City on February 14,1946, the son of Alma Iola and Maurice Robert Hines, a dancer, musician, Hines began tapping when he was two years old and began dancing semi-professionally at the age of five. After that, he and his older brother Maurice performed together, Gregory and Maurice also learned from veteran tap dancers, such as Howard Sims and The Nicholas Brothers, whenever they performed in the same venues. The two brothers were known as The Hines Kids, making appearances, and later as The Hines Brothers. When their father joined the act as a drummer, the name changed again in 1963 to Hines, Hines, Hines performed as the lead singer and musician in a rock band called Severance in the year of 1975-1976 based in Venice, California. Severance was one of the bands at an original music club called Honky Hoagies Handy Hangout. Severance released their album on Largo Records in 1976. In 1986, he sang a duet with Luther Vandross, entitled Theres Nothing Better Than Love, Hines made his movie debut in Mel Brookss History of the World, Part I. Critics took note of Hiness comedic charm, and he appeared in such movies as The Cotton Club, White Nights, Running Scared alongside Billy Crystal, Tap. On television, he starred in his own series in 1997 called The Gregory Hines Show on CBS, in 1999, he would return to voice Big Bill, in Nick Jr. s television show Little Bill. In 2000, he starred in The Tic Code, Hines made his Broadway debut with his brother in The Girl in Pink Tights in 1954. He earned Tony Award nominations for Eubie, comin Uptown, and Sophisticated Ladies, and won the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Jellys Last Jam and the Theatre World Award for Eubie. In 1989, Gregory Hines created Gregory Hines Tap Dance in America, the PBS special featured seasoned tap dancers such as Savion Glover and Bunny Briggs. He also co-hosted the Tony Awards ceremony in 1995 and 2002, in 1990, Hines visited his idol, Sammy Davis, Jr. as he was dying of throat cancer, unable to speak. After Davis died, an emotional Hines spoke at Daviss funeral of how Sammy had made a gesture to him, Hines spoke of the honor that Sammy thought that Hines could carry on from where he left off. He did a lot of improvisation of tap steps, tap sounds and his improvisation was like that of a drummer, doing a solo and coming up with all sorts of rhythms. He also improvised the phrasing of a number of tap steps that he would come up with, a laid back dancer, he usually wore nice pants and a loose-fitting shirt. Although he inherited the roots and tradition of the black rhythmic tap, he influenced the new black rhythmic tap

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Mariah Carey
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Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. In 1990, Carey rose to fame with the release of Vision of Love from her eponymous debut album, the album produced four chart-topping singles in the US and began what would become a string of commercially successful albums which solidified the singer as Columbias highest selling act. Carey and Boyz II Men spent a record sixteen weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995–1996 with One Sweet Day, following a contentious divorce from Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, Carey adopted a new image and traversed towards hip hop with the release of Butterfly. In 1998, she was honored as the worlds best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the World Music Awards, Carey parted with Columbia in 2000, and signed a record-breaking $100 million recording contract with Virgin Records America. In the weeks prior to the release of her film Glitter and its soundtrack in 2001. The project was received and led to a general decline in the singers career. Careys recording contract was out for $50 million by Virgin. After a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of music charts with The Emancipation of Mimi, Carey once again ventured into film with a well-received supporting role in Precious, and was awarded the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Throughout her career, Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, according to the RIAA, she is the third-best-selling female artist in the United States, with 63.5 million certified albums. With the release of Touch My Body, Carey gained her 18th number-one single in the United States, in 2012, the singer was ranked second on VH1s list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, New York, to Patricia and her mother is of Irish descent, while her father had African-American and Afro-Venezuelan ancestry. The surname Carey was adopted by her Venezuelan grandfather, Francisco Núñez, Patricia was an occasional opera singer and vocal coach before she met Alfred in 1960. As he began earning a living as an engineer, the couple married later that year. After their elopement, Patricias family disowned her for marrying a black man, Carey later explained that she felt neglected by her maternal family while growing up, which affected her greatly. In the years between the births of Careys older sister Alison and herself, the Carey family struggled within the community due to their ethnicity, Careys name was derived from the song They Call the Wind Maria, originally from the 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon. When Carey was three, her parents divorced, after their separation, Alison moved in with her father, while the other two children, Mariah and brother Morgan, remained with their mother. Carey grew apart from her father and would stop seeing him altogether. By age four, she recalled that she had begun to sneak the radio under her covers at night, during elementary school, she excelled in subjects that she enjoyed, such as music, art, and literature, but did not find interest in others

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Blair Underwood
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Blair Erwin Underwood is an American television, film, and stage actor and director. He played headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins on the NBC legal drama L. A. Law for seven years and he has received two Golden Globe Award nominations, three NAACP Image Awards and one Grammy Award. In recent years, he has appeared as Andrew Garner on Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D, the New Adventures of Old Christine, Dirty Sexy Money and In Treatment and was in NBCs The Event. Underwood was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Marilyn Ann Scales, an interior decorator, because of his fathers military career, Underwood lived on bases and Army Posts in the United States and Stuttgart, Germany, during his childhood. Blair attended Petersburg High School in Petersburg, Virginia and he went on to attend the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is an honorary member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. A. Law, where he appeared from 1987 to 1994, in 1996 he was featured in the July issue of Playgirl. Blair also appeared in the 1987s TV series 21 Jump Street aside a young Johnny Depp on episode Gotta Finish the Riff, underwoods film career began with roles in Just Cause, Set It Off and Deep Impact. He also had a role as a geneticist in Gattaca. In 2000, he played the role in the short-lived television series City of Angels. In 2003, he guest starred in four episodes on the HBO series Sex, in 2004, he played the role of Roger De Souza opposite Heather Locklear in NBCs LAX. He gained acclaim as the grade school teacher in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus for two years. In 2007, he guest starred in an episode of the NBC series Law & Order and he played the character Alex in the first season of the HBO series In Treatment, for which he was nominated for best supporting actor at the 2009 Golden Globes. Underwood has received three NAACP Image Awards, for his work in Rules of Engagement, and his television work in L. A. Law, City of Angels, Murder in Mississippi. Underwood was voted one of People s 50 Most Beautiful People in 2000, in 2007, Underwood co-authored the novel Casanegra, A Tennyson Hardwick Novel with husband-and-wife team Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due. In 2010–2011, Underwood portrayed United States President Elias Martinez in the NBC drama series The Event, in 2012, he played the lead role of Stanley in the Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. In 2013, Underwood played the role of Robert Ironside in the remake of the successful 1960s television series, the show was cancelled after three episodes. In 2016, Underwood was cast in the ABC thriller series Quantico for the regular role of CIA officer. Underwood is a part of charitable organizations

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Diana Ross
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Diane Ernestine Earle Ross, known professionally as Diana Ross, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. As part of the Supremes, her success made it possible for future African-American R&B, Dianas high-pitched and bright lyric-soprano voice has been enjoyed and still is by fans around the world. The group released a record-setting twelve number-one hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, including the hits Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, Come See About Me, Stop. In the Name of Love, You Cant Hurry Love, You Keep Me Hangin On, Love Child and she later released the album Touch Me in the Morning in 1973, its title track reached number 1, as her second solo hit. That same year, her album Lady Sings The Blues, which was the soundtrack of her film based on the life of jazz singer Billie Holiday. By 1975, the Mahogany soundtrack included her third number-one hit and her eponymous 1976 album included her fourth number-one hit, Love Hangover. In 1979, Ross released the album The Boss and her 1980 semi-eponymous album Diana reached number 2 on the US Billboard albums chart, and spawned the number-one hit Upside Down, and the international hit Im Coming Out. After leaving Motown, Ross achieved her sixth and final US number-one hit, Ross has also ventured into acting, with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award-nominated performance for her performance in the film Lady Sings the Blues. She also starred in two films, Mahogany and The Wiz, later acting in the television films Out of Darkness, for which she also was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Ross was named the Female Entertainer of the Century by Billboard magazine, Ross has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, when her releases with the Supremes and as a solo artist are tallied. In 1988, Ross was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as member of the Supremes, alongside Mary Wilson and she was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. She is a 12-time Grammy nominee, never earning a competitive honor, in December 2016, Billboard magazine named her the 50th most successful dance artist of all time. Diane Ross was born at Hutzel Womens Hospital in Detroit on March 26,1944 and she was the second eldest child of Ernestine, a schoolteacher, and Fred Ross, Sr. a former Army soldier. Much has been made of whether her first name ends in an a or an e, according to Ross, her mother actually named her Diane but a clerical error resulted in her name being recorded as Diana on her birth certificate. She was listed as Diane during the first Supremes records, she introduced herself as Diane until early in the groups heyday and her friends and family still call her Diane. Rosss grandfather John E. Ross, a native of Gloucester County, Virginia, was born to Washington Ross, Virginia Baytops mother Francis Frankey Baytop was a former slave who had become a midwife after the Civil War. Ross and her family lived at Belmont Road in the North End section of Detroit, near Highland Park, MI. When Ross was seven, her mother contracted tuberculosis, causing her to seriously ill

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Chris Tucker
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Christopher Chris Tucker is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for playing the role of Smokey in Friday, Tucker became a frequent stand up performer on Def Comedy Jam in the 1990s. He also appeared in Luc Bessons The Fifth Element, Quentin Tarantino s Jackie Brown, Tucker was born on August 31,1971, in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest son of Mary Louise and Norris Tucker. One of six children, Tucker learned early in life that humor has the power to draw attention to both at school and at home. His father was an independent businessman who owned a janitorial service, Tucker grew up in Decatur, Georgia, and, after graduating from Columbia High School in Decatur, he moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a career in comedy and acting. In 1992, Tucker was a frequent performer on Def Comedy Jam and he made his cinematic debut in House Party 3, and gained greater film recognition alongside rapper Ice Cube in the 1995 film Friday. In 1997, he co-starred with Charlie Sheen in Money Talks, after the commercial success of the first Rush Hour film, Tucker held out for a $20 million salary for Rush Hour 2 and was paid $25 million salary for Rush Hour 3. The latter was part of a $40 million two-movie contract with New Line Cinema that also included a future film. He was also to receive 20% of the gross against his salary from the Rush Hour 3, Tucker did not reprise his role as Smokey in Next Friday or in Friday After Next because he had become a born-again Christian after filming Money Talks. He starred in Michael Jacksons video You Rock My World and made a appearance in Tupac Shakurs California Love. On February 13,1999, Tucker participated in the NBA All-Star Weekends Celebrity Game, other celebrities participating included rapper Master P, NBA Hall of Famers Clyde Drexler and Dominique Wilkins, wide receiver Terrell Owens, and four Harlem Globetrotters. In 2011, Tucker made a comeback to stand-up comedy, the next year, Tucker returned to film in the Academy Award winning drama Silver Linings Playbook, co-starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. Tuckers performance in the film was received by critics and audiences alike. The film itself received numerous nominations and awards, Tucker was among the winners of the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast in 2012 and he also hosted the 2013 BET Awards. Tucker has a son named Destin, who lives with his mother in Los Angeles and he divides his time among Bel Air, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Atlanta, Georgia. A friend of Bill Clinton, Tucker has traveled with the former President overseas, Tucker participated in a PBS documentary on the genetic makeup of African Americans. He found he has African, European, and Native American ancestry, through DNA tests, Tuckers patrilineal ancestry was traced back to the Ambundu ethnic group of Angola and one line of his mothers to the Bamileke of Cameroon. He also traced his family back to the 1830s

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Universal Amphitheatre
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Universal Amphitheatre was an indoor amphitheatre located in Los Angeles, California within Universal City. It was originally built as a venue, opening in the summer of 1972 with a production of Jesus Christ Superstar. It was remodeled and converted into a theatre in 1982 to improve acoustics. The amphitheater closed on September 6,2013 to be demolished for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood, the Amphitheatre was originally built as a daytime arena where patrons of the Universal Studios Studio Tour could watch stuntmen perform a western-themed stunt show and shootout. By 1970, the stage was completed and three old west facades were constructed for the show, the arena was completed in 1971. Because it was empty at night, a studio tour guide suggested that the arena be used to hold rock concerts. On June 28,1972, the venue hosted its first concert, the show was a hit and was extended until cold weather forced its closure. During these early years, the stunt show was performed during the day while at night the venue hosted concerts, the theatre proved to be so popular that it regularly filled up to 98% capacity. After only one year, the studio expanded it to seat 5,200 patrons, in 1980, the venue closed for two years for a major renovation. During this time, a roof was constructed to allow for entertainment, acoustics were improved. In May 1993, Universal added the Universal CityWalk shopping and dining district and this allowed patrons to eat and drink before and after concerts. The amphitheatre was best known for its acoustics and its sightlines, on December 6,2011, it was announced that Gibson Amphitheatre would close and would be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park area at Universal Studios Hollywood. Although the venue had events scheduled until October 2013, it closed in September of that year. The final performance held at the Gibson Amphitheatre was Pepe Aguilar on September 6th,2013, at the time of its closure, it was the third largest mid-sized venue in California, behind Nokia Theatre and the Shrine Auditorium - two other Los Angeles venues. The amphitheatre was demolished on September 25,2013, list of contemporary amphitheatres Gibson Amphitheatre on Live Nation Gibson Amphitheatre Home movies showing the arena with the original Wild West stunt show in 1971

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Cedric the Entertainer
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Cedric Antonio Kyles, better known by his stage name, Cedric the Entertainer, is an American actor, comedian, director, and game show host. He was originally the host on Its Showtime at the Apollo and he also hosted BETs ComicView during the 1993-1994 season and Def Comedy Jam in 1995. He is best known for co-starring with Steve Harvey on The WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show and he hosted the twelfth season of daytime version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in the 2013-2014 television season. He also starred in the TV Land original series The Soul Man, Cedric was born on April 24,1964 in Jefferson City, Missouri, and is the son of Rosetta, a school teacher, and Kittrell Kyles, an employee of a railroad company. His only sibling is his younger sister Sharita Kyles Wilson, an adjunct instructor at the University of Memphis in Memphis. He was raised in Caruthersville, Missouri, but after junior school he moved to Berkeley. Cedric is a graduate of Berkeley High School in St. Louis northern suburbs, while Cedric attended Berkeley High, he developed a very severe rash on the top of his head, forcing him to wear a hat for the rest of his career. In 2005, Cedric told CNN he no longer cares about his rash and is proud of it and he continues his involvement with his high school by awarding a scholarship each year to a graduating senior through his Cedric the Entertainer Charitable Foundation Inc. The foundations motto is, Reaching Out. Giving Back and he is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi. Mr. Kyles recently was awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree in Fine Arts, in 1996, Cedric moved into acting, playing Steve Harveys friend, Cedric Jackie Robinson, on the sitcom, The Steve Harvey Show. These comments were spoken in character, were part of the script, in the 2005 animated film Madagascar, Cedric voiced Maurice the aye aye. In October 2005, Cedric joined the Champ Car auto racing series as a part owner, Cedric appeared in the movie Charlottes Web as the voice of Golly the gander. While his acting career grew, Cedric continued stand-up and traveled the country as one of the Kings of Comedy headliners, with Steve Harvey, the act was later made into a film by Spike Lee called The Original Kings of Comedy. Cedric briefly had his own comedy show called Cedric the Entertainer Presents. The show had been renewed for a season, but Fox canceled it before the season began. He then appeared in the 2003 PlayStation 2 video game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 and his most recent HBO Comedy Special was titled Cedric The Entertainer, Taking You Higher. Two of the dancers from the special were Kamilah Barrett and Sandra Colton. He also recorded comedic interludes on two multi-platinum selling albums, Nellys Country Grammar and Jay-z Black Album and he then starred in the 2008 films Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins and Street Kings

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Tracee Ellis Ross
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Tracee Ellis Ross is an American actress, model, comedian, producer and television host. From 2000 to 2008, she played the role as Joan Clayton on the UPN/CW comedy series Girlfriends. In 2014, Ross began starring as Dr. Rainbow Johnson in the ABC comedy series Black-ish, the role brought her three more NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. She has received nominations for a Critics Choice Television Award and Primetime Emmy Award and, in 2017, born Tracee Joy Silberstein in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of Motown singer/actress Diana Ross and music business manager Robert Ellis Silberstein. Actor and musician Evan Ross is her half-brother and her father is Jewish-American and her mother is African-American. Ross attended Riverdale Country School in the Bronx and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland and she was a model in her teens. She attended Brown University, where she appeared in plays, and she later worked in the fashion industry, as a model and contributing fashion editor to Mirabella and New York magazines. Ross made her big debut in 1996, playing a Jewish/African-American woman in the independent feature film Far Harbor. The following year, she debuted as host of The Dish, in 1998, she starred as a former high school track star who remained silent about having been abused at the hands of a coach, in the NBC made-for-TV movie Race Against Fear, A Moment of Truth. Her next role was an independent feature film Sue, in 2000, she landed her first major studio role in Diane Keatons Hanging Up. The same year, she broke into comedy as a performer in the MTV series The Lyricist Lounge Show, a hip-hop variety series mixing music, dramatic sketches. The series centered on four young African-American women, and their male best friend, in 2007, Ross won an NAACP Image Award in the category, Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the series. She won a second Image Award for the role in 2009, in 2007, Ross starred with her brother Evan Ross and Queen Latifah in the HBO movie Life Support, That same year, she appeared in the Tyler Perry theatrical movie, Daddys Little Girls. She appeared in the 2009 film Labor Pains, in 2010, she appeared in an episode of Private Practice as a pregnant doctor. In 2011, Ross appeared in four episodes of CSI as the wife of Laurence Fishburnes character. Ross starred in the sitcom, Reed Between the Lines, with Malcolm-Jamal Warner airing on BET starting in October 2011 and she won a third NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series in 2012 for her performance in the series. In August 2012, it was announced that Ross would not return for Season Two, in 2011, she appeared in the Lifetime film Five directed by Alicia Keys. The performance in film earned her nominations for a NAACP Image Award, in 2012, Ross starred in the NBC drama pilot Bad Girls

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Persia White
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Persia White is an American actress and musician. White is known for her role as Lynn Searcy on the sitcom Girlfriends and she is also a member of the industrial rock band XEO3 and a solo singer, who released her debut album Mecca in 2009. White is one of four born to a white mother. Her early years were spent in the Bahamas, Whites father was paralyzed in a car accident when she was three. He later moved to Miami to seek medical care. Whites mother moved with her children to the South Florida area two years later, but did not reunite with Whites father, White later joined the Miami Coconut Grove Childrens Theater. As a teen, she studied dance, acting, singing, after high school, White signed with the Ford Agency and obtained her Screen Actors Guild card. She then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting, White has appeared in various independent films, including Red Letters and the cult horror Blood Dolls. She starred in the made-for-TV movies Operation Sandman, and Suddenly, in 2008, White appeared in The Fall of Night, as the character Dawn. She can also be seen in Chrisette Micheles video, Be OK, in addition to acting, White also co-produced the award-winning documentary Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. In July 2011, White won the award for Best Performance By An Actor in the American Black Film Festival for her work in Dysfunctional Friends and she also appeared as Bonnies mother on The Vampire Diaries in a semi-recurring role. White is a vegan, a human and animal rights advocate and she was honored by PETA as a 2005 Humanitarian of the Year. She is a member for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. On February 29,2008, White was engaged to singer Saul Williams and they met in 2003 when he made a guest appearance on the TV show Girlfriends. On January 17,2009, White announced via her Myspace blog that she, after three years of dating, White married fellow The Vampire Diaries actor Joseph Morgan in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, on July 5,2014. White has a daughter, born c. 1995, Mecca is Persia Whites debut album. It was released digitally on October 31,2009, and on CD on December 8,2009, the title comes from the name of Whites daughter. The final three songs on the album were all featured on the TV series Girlfriends which White acted in. FM

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Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. is an American actor. For his portrayal of O. J. Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson, American Crime Story and he co-starred in the sixth season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story, subtitled Roanoke. His other films include As Good as It Gets, American Gangster, Lee Daniels The Butler, Gooding was born on January 2,1968 in The Bronx, New York City. His mother, Shirley, is a singer with the Sweethearts, Gooding has three siblings, April, Omar, and Tommy. His paternal grandfather, Dudley MacDonald Gooding, was a native of Barbados and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1972 after his fathers music group had their hit single Everybody Plays the Fool, two years later, the elder Gooding left the family. He served as president in three of them. He became a born-again Christian at age 13, in 1994, Gooding married his high school sweetheart, Sara Kapfer, with whom he has three children. In 2014, Kapfer filed for separation from Gooding. Gooding filed for divorce in January 2017, goodings first job as an entertainer was as a breakdancer performing with singer Lionel Richie at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. After high school, Gooding studied Japanese martial arts for three years, before turning his focus toward acting, early on, he landed guest starring roles on shows like Hill Street Blues, Amen and MacGyver and also had a tiny part in the popular comedy Coming to America. Goodings first major role was in John Singletons inner-city crime drama Boyz n the Hood, in which he played the lead, a box office surprise and critical hit, the film is now considered a modern classic. He followed this success with supporting roles in films such as A Few Good Men, Judgment Night, Lightning Jack. Most significantly, it earned Gooding an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and his exuberant Show me the money. Line in the film became a catch phrase. Additionally, his Oscar acceptance speech has often cited for its enthusiasm. Additionally, though not well received critically, the family comedy Snow Dogs was a commercial success, other roles of note during this time include Theo Caulder in the psychological thriller Instinct and the voice of Buck in the Disney animated film Home on the Range. On top of this, Gooding had allegedly turned down roles in films such as Amistad in the aftermath of his Oscar win. Ultimately, neither his earlier successes nor his leading roles in a couple of independent films

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Shrine Auditorium
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The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners and it was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1975. Opened in 1926, the current Shrine Auditorium replaced an earlier 1906 Al Malaikah Temple which had destroyed by a fire on January 11,1920. The fire gutted the building in just 30 minutes. The new auditorium was designed in the Moorish Revival style by San Francisco-based theater architect G. Albert Lansburgh, with local architects John C. Austin, when built, the auditorium could hold 1,200 people on stage and seat an audience of 6,442. An engineer who consulted on the said that the steel truss supporting the balcony was the largest ever constructed. The entire complex follows a Moroccan architectural motif, the Shrine Auditorium seats approximately 6,300 people and has a stage 194 feet wide and 69 feet deep. The Auditorium features two boxes above the orchestra level holding 40 people each and seven loges on the balcony holding between 36 and 47 seats each, of the remaining seats,2,964 are on the orchestra level and 2,982 on the balcony level. The Shrine Auditorium has hosted a number of events, mainly for entertainment, the Academy Awards were held at the Shrine from 1947 to 1948 and eight times between 1988 and 2001 until it moved to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The Shrine hosted several Grammy ceremonies until 2000 when the Grammys moved to the nearby Staples Center, the Primetime Emmy Awards were also held at the venue for a decade beginning in 1998. However, the Primetime ceremony moved to the nearby Microsoft Theater, for 33 years, the Shrine Auditorium was home to the University of Southern California Trojans basketball team. The Trojans home court was on the Shrines stage, the Los Angeles Lakers also briefly played some playoff games in the theatre, when the nearby Los Angeles Sports Arena was unavailable. The Shrine Circus, concerts, stage shows and other events are held here. The Shrine Auditorium was also the venue for the 55th Miss Universe beauty pageant, the 1933 movie King Kong filmed the audience in the Shrine Auditorium for the scenes where Kong was displayed manacled on stage. In 1953, segments of Judy Garlands movie classic A Star Is Born were filmed at the Shrine, in 1955, The Great Shrine Auditorium Concert took place, which is considered a major event in the histories of both American gospel and secular music. The event also featured a young Sam Cooke who was at the time performing with the gospel group The Soul Stirrers. Ray Charles recorded his landmark Live in Concert album at the Shrine in 1964, in the late 1960s, the Shrine was referred to as The Pinnacle by the audiences of rock concerts. On August 24,1968, The Grateful Dead performed there and recorded their show, on January 24,1975, Genesis, then led by singer Peter Gabriel, gave a live performance of the conceptual progressive rock show, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway at the Shrine

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LL Cool J
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James Todd Smith, known professionally as LL Cool J, is an American rapper, actor, author, and entrepreneur from Queens, New York. LL Cool J is also known as one of the forefathers of pop rap and he has released 13 studio albums and two greatest hits compilations. His twelfth album Exit 13, was his last for his deal with Def Jam Recordings. His latest album, Authentic, was released in April 2013, in 2010, VH1 considered him to be in their 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time list. LL Cool J has also appeared in films, including In Too Deep, Any Given Sunday. He currently stars in a role as NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna, on the CBS crime drama television series NCIS. LL Cool J is also the host of Lip Sync Battle on Spike, LL Cool J was born James Todd Smith on January 14,1968, in Bay Shore, New York, the son of Ondrea Griffeth and James Louis Smith, Jr. In an episode of Finding Your Roots, LL learned his mother was adopted by Eugene Griffith, the series genetic genealogist CeCe Moore identified LLs biological grandparents as Ethel Mae Jolly and Nathaniel Christy Lewis through analysis of his DNA. LLs biological great-uncle was hall of fame boxer, John Henry Lewis and he began rapping at age 9 and was influenced by hip-hop group The Treacherous Three. His grandfather, a jazz saxophonist, bought him $2,000 worth of equipment, Smith later discussed his childhood background and rapping, stating that By the time I got that equipment, I was already a rapper. In this neighborhood, the kids grow up in rap and its like speaking Spanish if you grow up in an all-Spanish house. I got into it when I was about 9, and since then all I wanted was to make a record and hear it on the radio. In a VH1 documentary, LL Cool J, at 14 years of age, revealed that he wanted to call himself J-Ski. Under his new name, LL Cool J, Smith was signed by Def Jam, which led to the release of his first official record. The single was a hard-hitting, streetwise b-boy song with spare beats, Smith later discussed his search for a label, stating I sent my demo to many different companies, but it was Def Jam where I found my home. That same year, Smith made his debut concert performance at Manhattan Center High School. In a later interview, LL Cool J recalled the experience, stating They pushed the lunch room tables together and me and my DJ, Cut Creator, as soon as it was over there were girls screaming and asking for autographs. Right then and there I said This is what I want to do, LLs debut single sold over 100,000 copies and helped establish both Def Jam as a label and Smith as a rapper

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D. L. Hughley
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Darryl Lynn D. L. Hughley is an American actor, political commentator, radio host and stand-up comedian. Hughley is best known as the original host of BETs ComicView from 1992-1993, the eponymous character on the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys and performed in The Original Kings of Comedy. Additionally, he has been the host of CNNs D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, a correspondent for The Jay Leno Show on NBC, Hughley landed in 9th place on Dancing with the Stars. Hughley was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Audrey and Charles Hughley, from 1992 to 1993, Hughley was the original host of ComicView, the stand-up comedy program on BET. From 1998 to 2002, he wrote, produced and starred in the sitcom series. During 2005, he released a comedy album D. L. Hughley, Notes From The GED Section and had a talk show on Comedy Central called Weekends at the D. L. He is a member of The Original Kings of Comedy, and has also had roles on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, in 2008, he was the host of the BET Awards. He also attended the funeral of one of his best friends and fellow King of Comedy, at the service, he gave a tearful speech during the eulogy. It was announced in June 2010 that NBC has ordered a game show pilot that Hughley will host entitled Whos Bluffing Who, also in June 2010, Hughley served as special guest moderator of ABCs The View for one day. Hughley is scheduled to guest-star on TBSs Glory Daze as well as guest host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Hughley has filled in for Meredith Vieira as a guest host on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Hughleys first book, I Want You to Shut the Fuck Up, How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America, Hughley was a contestant on Season 16 of Dancing with the Stars. He was partnered with two-time champion Cheryl Burke, on March 9,2009, CNN announced Hughley would be ending the show due to a desire to work in Los Angeles and be closer to his family. He plans to continue his work with CNN as a Los Angeles-based contributor for the network, Hughley also has a career as an on-air radio personality. On July 20,2009, The D. L, Hughley Morning Show premiered on WRKS, more popularly known at the time as 98.7 Kiss FM, an urban adult contemporary station in New York City. His co-hosts included former BET news correspondent Jacque Reid, airing from 6–10 am, the show placed Hughley in direct competition with his fellow King of Comedy Steve Harvey, whose nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show airs in New York on WBLS. There were plans to take Hughleys show into syndication as well, in August 2010, Kiss FM dropped the show from its schedule, and Hughley moved on to other endeavors. On August 12,2013, REACH Media, the syndicator founded by Tom Joyner, announced it had finalized a deal with D. L. to host a new nationally syndicated afternoon drive show, Hughley Show, distributed by Cumulus Media Networks

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Halle Berry
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Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. She won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monsters Ball, as of 2017, she is the only black woman to have won a Best Actress Academy Award. Berry was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s and has involved in the production of several of the films in which she performed. She is also a Revlon spokesmodel, before becoming an actress, she started modeling and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986. She then appeared in the X-Men sequels, X2 and X-Men, in the 2010s, she appeared in movies such as the science fiction film Cloud Atlas, the crime thriller The Call and X-Men, Days of Future Past. Berry was formerly married to baseball player David Justice, and singer-songwriter Eric Benét and she has a daughter by model Gabriel Aubry, and a son by actor Olivier Martinez. Berry was born Maria Halle Berry, her name was changed to Halle Maria Berry at age five. Her parents selected her name from Halles Department Store, which was then a local landmark in her birthplace of Cleveland. Her mother, Judith Ann, who is of English and German ancestry, was a psychiatric nurse and her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, was an African-American hospital attendant in the psychiatric ward where her mother worked, he later became a bus driver. Berrys maternal grandmother, Nellie Dicken, was born in Sawley, Derbyshire, England, while her maternal grandfather, Berrys parents divorced when she was four years old, she and her older sister, Heidi Berry-Henderson, were raised exclusively by their mother. Berry has said in published reports that she has been estranged from her father since her childhood, noting in 1992 and her father was very abusive to her mother. Berry has recalled witnessing her mother being beaten daily, kicked down stairs, Berry graduated from Bedford High School where she was a cheerleader, honor student, editor of the school newspaper and prom queen. She worked in the department at Higbees Department store. She then studied at Cuyahoga Community College, in the 1980s, she entered several beauty contests, winning Miss Teen All American in 1985 and Miss Ohio USA in 1986. She was the 1986 Miss USA first runner-up to Christy Fichtner of Texas, in the Miss USA1986 pageant interview competition, she said she hoped to become an entertainer or to have something to do with the media. Her interview was awarded the highest score by the judges and she was the first African-American Miss World entrant in 1986, where she finished sixth and Trinidad and Tobagos Giselle Laronde was crowned Miss World. According to the Current Biography Yearbook, Berry. pursued a career in Chicago. Berrys first weeks in New York were less than auspicious, She slept in a homeless shelter, in 1989, Berry moved to New York City to pursue her acting ambitions

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Tyler Perry
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Tyler Perry is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, writer, and songwriter, specializing in the gospel genre. Perry wrote and produced stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2011, Forbes named him the highest paid man in entertainment, Perry is known for both creating and performing as the Madea character, a tough elderly black woman. Perry also creates films, some produced as live recordings of stage plays, Perry is estimated to have earned around US$75 million by 2008. Many of Perrys stage-play films have been adapted as professional films. Perry has also created several shows, his most successful of which is Tyler Perrys House of Payne. On October 2,2012, Perry struck an exclusive partnership with Oprah Winfrey. The partnership was largely for the purposes of bringing scripted television to the OWN network, Perry has created multiple scripted series for the network, the most successful being The Haves and the Have Nots. As of 2014, The Haves and the Have Nots has given OWN its highest ratings to date. The series has also referred to as being one of OWNs biggest success stories with its weekly dose of soapy fun, filled with the typical betrayals, affairs, manipulations. Perrys work has earned enough serious attention to lead to the publishing of a book about him and his work. Perry was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, as Emmitt Perry Jr. the son of Willie Maxine Perry and Emmitt Perry, Perry once said his fathers answer to everything was to beat it out of you. As a child, Perry once went so far as to attempt suicide in an effort to escape his fathers beatings, in contrast to his father, his mother took him to church each week, where he sensed a certain refuge and contentment. At age 16, he had his first name legally changed from Emmitt to Tyler in an effort to distance himself from his father, a DNA test Perry took in the 2010s stated that Emmitt Sr. was not Perrys biological father. While Perry did not complete school, he earned a GED. This comment inspired him to himself to a career in writing. He soon started writing a series of letters to himself, which became the basis for the musical I Know Ive Been Changed. Around 1990, Perry moved to Atlanta, where two years later I Know Ive Been Changed was first performed at a community theater, financed by the 22-year-old Perrys $12,000 life savings

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Anika Noni Rose
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She also starred as Tiana, an African American princess in Walt Disney Pictures 2009 animated film The Princess and the Frog. In 2014, Rose played the role of Beneatha Younger in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun and she was named a Disney Legend in 2011. Rose was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut, in her high school freshman year, she appeared in a school production and caught the acting bug. She then attended Florida A&M University where she earned a Bachelors Degree in theatre, Rose moved to New York without a job. After three months, she secured the role of Rusty in Broadways Footloose and she followed Footloose with numerous workshops and two musicals using pre-existing song catalogs, Elis Comin Off-Broadway and Me and Mrs. Jones with Lou Rawls in Philadelphia. Both of the tuners were rumored for transfers, but neither made it anywhere after their limited engagements ended. Roses big Broadway break was getting cast as Emmie Thibodeaux in Caroline, in 2004, she was awarded the Theatre World Award, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress, and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Caroline, or Change. In 2014, Rose returned to Broadway in a revival of A Raisin in the Sun, in 2006, Rose starred in Dreamgirls as Lorrell Robinson with Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx, and Eddie Murphy. Rose also stars alongside Jill Scott in The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency directed by Anthony Minghella, in 2010, she played the role of Yasmine in the movie For Colored Girls. One critic described Roses performance as especially fierce and she played the role of Sara Tidwell in the A&E miniseries Bag of Bones in 2011, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. Rose was named a Disney Legend on August 19,2011, in 2012, she guest-starred in Gone Abie Gone, episode 3, season 24 of The Simpsons, voicing Abe Simpsons second wife, Rita LaFleur. The episode originally aired November 11 of that year, Rose played the adult Kizzy in two episodes of televisions Roots, an adaptation of the novel by Alex Haley and remake of the ground-breaking 1977 miniseries. Critic Alan Sepinwall, in suggesting Emmy nominees to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and she has a role in the Starz series Power and the leading role in the 2017 BET drama The Quad. Awards 1998, Dean Goodman Choice Award – Valley Song 1998, Garland/Drama Logue Award – Valley Song 1999, S. F

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Hill Harper
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Francis Eugene Hill Harper is an American actor and author. Harper was born in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Harry Harper, a psychiatrist, and Marilyn Hill and he has been acting since the age of 7. Harper graduated from Bella Vista High School in 1984 and he then graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1988. In 1992 Harper graduated with a J. D. cum laude, in addition, he also received his Master of Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. During his years at Harvard, he was a member of Bostons Black Folks Theater Company. While a student at Harvard, Harper befriended Barack Obama, Harper and Obama met on the basketball court and became good friends during their first year as law students. Although Harper earned three Ivy League degrees, he decided to pursue acting and moved to Los Angeles and he has received several honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates from both Westfield State College and Howard University. Born Francis Eugene Harper, he adopted the name Hill as a tribute to both his maternal and paternal ancestors, harpers first roles in television began in 1993, in a recurring role on the Fox series Married. With Children while also making his debut in the short film Confessions of a Dog. He had his first acting role in a film with Spike Lees Get on the Bus. He went on to demonstrate his versatility in such films as Christopher Scott Cherots Hav Plenty and Lees He Got Game. His profile subsequently rose on both the mainstream and independent film circuits, thanks to roles in films ranging from Beloved to the independent romantic comedy Loving Jezebel to The Skulls. Harper did some of his most acclaimed work in Jordan Walker-Pearlmans The Visit, Harper played coroner-turned-crime scene investigator Sheldon Hawkes on the CBS crime drama CSI, NY for nine seasons. He also portrayed Leshem in the 2010 Syfy original movie Stonehenge Apocalypse, in February 2013 it was announced that CSI, NY would be ending and Harper would be joining the cast of Covert Affairs as a series regular. From April 21,2015 to May 10,2015, Hill Harper starred as “Hard Rock“ in the Off-Broadway play ToasT, the play was set in the Attica Prison around the time of its 1971 prison riot and told of the lives of its prisoners using poetic prose. His books, The Wealth Cure, Putting Money in Its Place, and his book, Letters to an Incarcerated Brother, Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones was published in 2013. In January 2008, Hill Harper participated in Yes We Can, the Yes We Can music video was produced by will. i. am. Harper is a member of the Obama for America National Finance Committee, as of October 2009, Hill has made several contributions to political candidates, exclusively to Democrats

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Wayne Brady
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He was the host of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show, the original host of Foxs Dont Forget the Lyrics. and has hosted Lets Make a Deal since its 2009 revival. Brady also performed in the Tony Award–winning musical Kinky Boots on Broadway as Simon, Brady was born in Columbus, Georgia to West Indian parents, and moved to Orlando, Florida, as a young child to live with his grandmother and aunt. Brady refers to his grandmother, Valerie Petersen, as his mom, Brady is second cousin to professional footballer Jozy Altidore who currently plays for Toronto FC. At 16, Brady started performing in community theater and at the Orlando improv troupe SAK Comedy Lab and he attended Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, where he graduated in 1989. In 1990, he enrolled at the University of Miami, in 1996, he moved to Los Angeles, where he continued developing his acting skills. Bradys career began as one of the improvisational theater performers in the version of Whose Line Is It Anyway. Brady guest-starred on The Drew Carey Show in 1999 and 2000 to take part in Drew Live, on the show, Brady played several games taken from Whose Line Is It Anyway. for the two episodes with other characters. In 2004, Brady joined the Broadway revival of Chicago, playing the role of lawyer Billy Flynn and he appeared briefly in the final episode of the 2004 season of the comedy Reno 911. He guest-starred on the Sci Fi Channels hit series show Stargate SG-1 as Trelak and he made an appearance on Chappelles Show, poking fun at his squeaky-clean persona. Brady wrote and sang the song for Disneys animated series The Weekenders. In 2005, he sang and recorded Jim Brickmans original Disney song Beautiful, in 2006, Brady became the host of TV Lands Thats What Im Talking About, a talk show discussing the role of African-Americans in the entertainment industry. From August 29 to September 29,2006, Brady hosted the Fox show Celebrity Duets, Brady made several guest appearances on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, playing James Stinson, the gay brother of Neil Patrick Harriss character, Barney Stinson. Brady has also appeared as a guest star for the MTV show Wild N Out, Brady has also guest-starred in the CBC comedy, Getting Along Famously, alongside his Whose Line is It Anyway. Brady was the co-host of the short-lived VH1 show Vinyl Justice in 1998, in 2007, he starred in the ABC Family film The List. He starred in Flirt, a pilot developed for The CW Television Network. He also performs Wayne Brady, Making $%. ^ up at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas and he was also on two episodes of Kevin Hill. Bradys debut album was released on September 16,2008, bradys version of Sam Cookes A Change is Gonna Come earned Brady a Grammy nomination in the Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance category. Brady started hosting an updated version of the game show Lets Make a Deal for CBS in October 2009, the show replaced the soap opera Guiding Light, which ended its long-time run

Academy Award
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first

Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of th

Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated c

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Streaming media
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Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. A client end-user can use their player to begin to play the data file before the entire file has been transmitted. For example, in the 1930s, elevator music was among the earliest popularly available streaming media, the te

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A live stream from a camera pointed at a fish tank, Schou FishCam

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A typical webcast, streaming in an embedded media player

Broadcast delay
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In radio and television, broadcast delay refers to the practice of intentionally delaying broadcast of live material. A short delay is used to prevent profanity, bloopers, violence, or other undesirable material from making it to air. In this instance, it is referred to as a seven-second delay or profanity delay. Longer delays can also be introduce

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Many US radio talk shows use broadcast delay to avoid FCC penalties

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Eventide BD600 Broadcast Delay

Society Awards
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Society Awards was founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David Moritz, and is headquartered in New York City. Moritz is an attorney by training, and has founded two companies which include Viceroy Creative and Ambition Beverages. Society Award’s clients include televised entertainment programs, charitable organizations, Fortune 500 corporations, film fes

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Society Awards

Beverly Hilton Hotel
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The Beverly Hilton is a hotel located on an 8. 9-acre property at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills, California. Conrad Hilton opened the Beverly Hilton in 1955, architect Welton Becket designed the hotel as a showpiece with 582 rooms. Since 1961, the hotels International Ballroom has hosted the Golden Globe

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The Beverly Hilton as seen from Wilshire Boulevard

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Merv Griffin Way with The Beverly Hilton in the background, in Beverly Hills, California.

Hollywood Palladium
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Hollywood Palladium is a theater located at 6215 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. It was built in a Streamline Moderne, Art Deco style and includes an 11,200 square foot dance floor including a mezzanine, the theater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Los Angeles Times publisher Norman Chandler funded the cons

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The Hollywood Palladium, 2012 (post-2008 renovation).

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Bandleader Opie Cates was on the bill in 1947.

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Xiah Junsu on stage at the Hollywood Palladium, 2012

Louis Gossett, Jr.
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Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. is an American actor. Gossett has also starred in film productions including A Raisin In The Sun. Gossett was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, on May 27,1936, to Hellen Rebecca, a nurse and he is an alumnus of Mark Twain Intermediate School 239 and Abraham Lincoln High School. His stage debut came at the age of

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Gossett in February 2008

Rita Moreno
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Rita Dolores Moreno is a Puerto Rican-American actress, dancer and singer. Moreno is one of twelve performers to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards, an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and she has also won numerous other awards, including various lifetime achievement awards. Moreno also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom,

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Rita Moreno (2011)

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Rita Moreno, 1963

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Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004

Ted Lange
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Theodore William Ted Lange is an American actor, director, and screenwriter best known for his role as the bartender, Isaac Washington, in the TV series The Love Boat. Lange and Gavin MacLeod, who played his captain in the series, have remained close friends, Lange was born in Oakland, California, in 1948, the son of Geraldine L. a television show

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Lange as Isaac Washington, 1977.

Robert Guillaume
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In a career that has spanned more than 50 years he has worked extensively on stage, television, and film. Guillaume was born in St. Louis, Missouri and he studied at St. Louis University and Washington University and served in the United States Army before pursuing an acting career. After leaving the university, Guillaume joined the Karamu Players

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Guillaume in 1980

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As Benson in Soap, 1977.

Jayne Kennedy
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Jayne Kennedy Overton is an American television personality, actress, model, corporate spokeswoman, producer, writer, public speaker, philanthropist, beauty pageant titleholder and sports broadcaster. Kennedy won the NAACP Theater Award for Best Producer along with her current husband Bill Overton for their production of the highly acclaimed staged

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Kennedy in 1980.

George Peppard
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George Peppard Jr. was an American film and television actor. Peppard secured a role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffanys. On television, he played the role of millionaire insurance investigator. He played Col. John Hannibal Smith, the leader of a renegade commando squad. George Peppard, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michiga

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Peppard in 1964

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George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Michael Warren (actor)
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Michael Warren is an American TV actor and former college basketball player, best known for playing Officer Bobby Hill on the NBC television series Hill Street Blues. Mike Warren grew up in South Bend, Indiana and attended Central High School and he was twice named to the Indiana all-state team. He graduated in 1964 as Bears career, season, and sin

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Warren (right) shooting ball in Game of the Century in 1968

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center. The Music Centers other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, the Pavilion has 3,156 seats spread over four tiers, with chandeliers, wide curving stairways and rich décor. The auditoriums sections are the Orchestra, Circle, Loge, as well as Balcony, c

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Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

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The stage as seen from the balcony at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990.

Debbie Allen
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Deborrah Kaye Debbie Allen is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She is perhaps best known for her work on the 1982 musical-drama television series Fame, where she portrayed dance teacher Lydia Grant and she currently portrays Cat

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Allen in 2012

Denzel Washington
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Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, director, and producer. Tolson in The Great Debaters, and drug kingpin Frank Lucas in American Gangster and he has been a featured actor in the films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and has been a frequent collaborator of directors Spike Lee, Antoine Fuqua and Tony Scott. In 2016, Washington was selec

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Washington in 2000

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Washington at the 62nd Academy Awards, at which he won Best Supporting Actor for the film Glory.

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Washington's signature in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre

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Washington after a performance of Julius Caesar in May 2005.

Whitney Houston
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time, Houston is one of pop musics best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide. She released seven albums and two soundtrack albums, all

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Houston performing at Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston in 1991

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New Hope Baptist Church

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Houston performing " Saving All My Love for You " on the Welcome Home Heroes concert in 1991

Pasadena Conference Center
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The Pasadena Convention Center is a convention center in Pasadena, California, near Los Angeles, owned by the City of Pasadena. The Civic Auditorium, one of the structures in the Pasadena Civic Center District, was built in 1931 and is best known for being the home for the Emmy Awards from 1977 until 1997. It was designed by architects George Edwin

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The Pasadena Civic Auditorium

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History

Arsenio Hall
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Arsenio Hall is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host. He is best known for hosting The Arsenio Hall Show, a talk show that ran from 1989 until 1994. Other television shows and films Hall has appeared in are Martial Law, Star Search, Coming to America, Hall is also known for his appearance as Alan Thickes sidekick on the talk show Thicke

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Arsenio Hall

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Hall at the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards.

Patti LaBelle
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Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards better known under the stage name Patti LaBelle, is an American singer, author, actress, and entrepreneur. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the group, Patti LaBelle. After the group split in 1976, LaBelle began a solo career, starting with her critically acclaimed debut album

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LaBelle in 2008.

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LaBelle (c) with her Labelle band mates Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash in a 1974 promotional photo.

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LaBelle promoting AIDS awareness in the 1980s.

Vanessa L. Williams
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Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American actress, singer, and fashion designer. She initially gained recognition as the first African-American recipient of the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in September 1983. However, a few prior to the end of her reign. Williams thus resigned as Miss America on July 22,1984, a few years lat

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Williams in 2004

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Vanessa L. Williams at the conclusion of her performance of Oh How the Years Go By at Miss America 2016

Gregory Hines
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Gregory Oliver Hines was an American dancer, actor, singer, and choreographer. Hines was born in New York City on February 14,1946, the son of Alma Iola and Maurice Robert Hines, a dancer, musician, Hines began tapping when he was two years old and began dancing semi-professionally at the age of five. After that, he and his older brother Maurice pe

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Gregory Hines

Mariah Carey
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Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. In 1990, Carey rose to fame with the release of Vision of Love from her eponymous debut album, the album produced four chart-topping singles in the US and began what would become a string of commercially successful albums which solidified the singer as Columbias highest s

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Carey performing on Good Morning America in May 2013

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Carey exiting the Shepherd's Bush Theatre after promoting her single "Vision of Love" on The Wogan Show, in 1990

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Carey at the Edwards Air Force Base during the making of the " I Still Believe " music video on December, 1998.

Blair Underwood
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Blair Erwin Underwood is an American television, film, and stage actor and director. He played headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins on the NBC legal drama L. A. Law for seven years and he has received two Golden Globe Award nominations, three NAACP Image Awards and one Grammy Award. In recent years, he has appeared as Andrew Garner on Agents of S.

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Underwood in February 2015

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Underwood at the 41st Emmy Awards, September 1989

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Underwood at the premiere for Earth in April 2009

Diana Ross
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Diane Ernestine Earle Ross, known professionally as Diana Ross, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. As part of the Supremes, her success made it possible for future African-American R&B, Dianas high-pitched and bright lyric-soprano voice has been enjoyed and still is by fans around the world. The group released a record

Chris Tucker
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Christopher Chris Tucker is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for playing the role of Smokey in Friday, Tucker became a frequent stand up performer on Def Comedy Jam in the 1990s. He also appeared in Luc Bessons The Fifth Element, Quentin Tarantino s Jackie Brown, Tucker was born on August 31,1971, in Atlanta, Georgia, the younge

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Tucker in March 2012

Universal Amphitheatre
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Universal Amphitheatre was an indoor amphitheatre located in Los Angeles, California within Universal City. It was originally built as a venue, opening in the summer of 1972 with a production of Jesus Christ Superstar. It was remodeled and converted into a theatre in 1982 to improve acoustics. The amphitheater closed on September 6,2013 to be demol

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Gibson Amphitheatre

Cedric the Entertainer
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Cedric Antonio Kyles, better known by his stage name, Cedric the Entertainer, is an American actor, comedian, director, and game show host. He was originally the host on Its Showtime at the Apollo and he also hosted BETs ComicView during the 1993-1994 season and Def Comedy Jam in 1995. He is best known for co-starring with Steve Harvey on The WB si

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Cedric at the Johnson Family Vacation premiere, April 7, 2004

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Cedric at the June 2008 premiere of Get Smart

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Cedric in May 2013

Tracee Ellis Ross
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Tracee Ellis Ross is an American actress, model, comedian, producer and television host. From 2000 to 2008, she played the role as Joan Clayton on the UPN/CW comedy series Girlfriends. In 2014, Ross began starring as Dr. Rainbow Johnson in the ABC comedy series Black-ish, the role brought her three more NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in

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Ross at the 2014 NAACP Image Awards

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Ross in February 2012

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Ross in June 2006

Persia White
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Persia White is an American actress and musician. White is known for her role as Lynn Searcy on the sitcom Girlfriends and she is also a member of the industrial rock band XEO3 and a solo singer, who released her debut album Mecca in 2009. White is one of four born to a white mother. Her early years were spent in the Bahamas, Whites father was para

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Mecca

Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. is an American actor. For his portrayal of O. J. Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson, American Crime Story and he co-starred in the sixth season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story, subtitled Roanoke. His other films include As Good as It Gets, American Gangster, Lee Daniels The Butler, Gooding w

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Gooding in April 2012

Shrine Auditorium
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The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners and it was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1975. Opened in 1926, the current Shrine Auditorium replaced an earlier 1906 Al Malaikah Temple which had destroyed by a

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The Shrine Auditorium

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The old Shrine Auditorium, 1910.

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The Shrine Auditorium in 1990, before being repainted in 2002.

LL Cool J
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James Todd Smith, known professionally as LL Cool J, is an American rapper, actor, author, and entrepreneur from Queens, New York. LL Cool J is also known as one of the forefathers of pop rap and he has released 13 studio albums and two greatest hits compilations. His twelfth album Exit 13, was his last for his deal with Def Jam Recordings. His lat

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LL Cool J in 2010.

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LL Cool J performing in Germany.

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LL Cool J performing in Wilmington, Delaware in August 2008.

D. L. Hughley
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Darryl Lynn D. L. Hughley is an American actor, political commentator, radio host and stand-up comedian. Hughley is best known as the original host of BETs ComicView from 1992-1993, the eponymous character on the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys and performed in The Original Kings of Comedy. Additionally, he has been the host of CNNs D. L. Hughley Break

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Hughley at the 72nd Peabody award, May 2013.

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Hughley with Robert De Niro in January 2009.

Halle Berry
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Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. She won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monsters Ball, as of 2017, she is the only black woman to have won a Best Actress Academy Award. Berry was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s and has involved in the production of several o

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Berry at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2013.

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Berry signs autographs for American soldiers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 24, 1996

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Berry in Hamburg in 2004

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Berry, visiting with sailors and Marines during the opening day of Fleet Week, New York 2006

Tyler Perry
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Tyler Perry is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, writer, and songwriter, specializing in the gospel genre. Perry wrote and produced stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2011, Forbes named him the highest paid man in entertainment, Perry is known for both creating and performing as the Madea character, a tough elderly black woman.

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Perry at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010

Anika Noni Rose
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She also starred as Tiana, an African American princess in Walt Disney Pictures 2009 animated film The Princess and the Frog. In 2014, Rose played the role of Beneatha Younger in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun and she was named a Disney Legend in 2011. Rose was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut, in her high school freshman year, she appe

Hill Harper
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Francis Eugene Hill Harper is an American actor and author. Harper was born in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Harry Harper, a psychiatrist, and Marilyn Hill and he has been acting since the age of 7. Harper graduated from Bella Vista High School in 1984 and he then graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1988. In 1992 Harper graduated with

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Hill Harper at Left Bank Books in St. Louis, MO signing his book Letters to a Young Brother (May 22, 2007).

Wayne Brady
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He was the host of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show, the original host of Foxs Dont Forget the Lyrics. and has hosted Lets Make a Deal since its 2009 revival. Brady also performed in the Tony Award–winning musical Kinky Boots on Broadway as Simon, Brady was born in Columbus, Georgia to West Indian parents, and moved to Orlando, Florida, a